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  1. William Avery Rockefeller Jr. (May 31, 1841 – June 24, 1922) was an American businessman and financier. Rockefeller was a co-founder of Standard Oil along with his elder brother John Davison Rockefeller. He was also a part owner of Anaconda Copper, which was the fourth-largest company in the world by the late 1920s.

  2. The Rockefeller family originated in Rhineland in Germany and family members moved to the Americas in the early 18th century, while through Eliza Davison, with family roots in Middlesex County, New Jersey, John D. Rockefeller and William A. Rockefeller Jr. and their descendants are also of Scots-Irish ancestry.

  3. William Avery "Devil Bill" Rockefeller Sr. (November 13, 1810 – May 11, 1906) was an American businessman, lumberman, herbalist, salesman, and con artist who went by the alias of Dr. William Levingston.

  4. Dec 4, 2013 · William Rockefeller Jr. is the man at the center of New York's train derailment. According to a union rep, he's been a locomotive engineer for almost 11 years "He's a man of a lot of character.

  5. The Rockefeller family (pronounced /ˈrɒkɨfɛlər/) is the Cleveland family of John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) and his brother William Rockefeller (1841–1922). They are an American industrial, banking, and political family that originally came from Germany.

  6. William Avery Rockefeller, Jr., generally known as simply William Rockefeller, was a co-founder with his older brother John D. Rockefeller [Sr.] of the prominent United States Rockefeller family. He created a huge estate at Bay Pond west of Keese Mills starting in 1898.

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  8. It was the man in the middle, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (also known as "Junior") who radically changed the very identity of the family and the impact of its legacy

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